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From ![]() SustainabilityFrom: Land-Use Planning |
Review of the legal powers of municipalities to advance the cause of environmental sustainability. | Howard Epstein | 45 | 2017 | $4.50 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Considering the Potential for Meaningful Public Participation Under Canada’s Impact Assessment Act |
This chapter examines the provisions for meaningful participation in the IAA and provides a more critical analysis of the limitations of public participation and discusses action needed to … | A. John Sinclair | 20 | 2021 | $2.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Sustainability in the Arctic Borderlands |
This chapter focuses on environmental change, which has quickly become the most important project of border security in the North. Water governance is a key. The focus remains on how cross-border … | Heather Nicol; Justin Barnes | 21 | 2021 | $2.10 Add |
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From ![]() Sustainability or Collapse?From: Techno-Fix |
Sustainability or Collapse? argues that there are at least three critical technological challenges that must be met in order to produce long-term sustainability: avoiding serious environmental … | Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann | 34 | 2011 | $3.40 Add |
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From ![]() Sustainable Development at the Local Level |
This chapter tackles sustainable development at the local level and highlights some projects undertaken under municipal mandates. This study is limited to the Nordic capitals — Stockholm, … | Dominique Côté; Marie-France Raynault; Sébastien Chartrand | 23 | 2015 | $2.30 Add |
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From ![]() Sustainable Meat – A Contradiction in Terms?From: Emergent Agriculture |
Among the most complex and contentious issues surrounding the debate about what is sustainable and what is not, is the question of meat. Can it be produced sustainably? Should we eat it? As an … | Gary S. Kleppel | 3 | 2014 | $0.30 Add |
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From ![]() Sustaining Agriculture in a Changing ClimateFrom: Resilient Agriculture |
This chapter provides a brief history of agricultural practices and outlines the different crops and livestock that are cultivated in different environments. The chapter goes on to discuss how … | Laura Lengnick | 40 | 2015 | $4.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! “Sweat the Evil Out”The Evolution of Canadian Prison Labour From: Solidarity Beyond Bars |
Chapter Four places the contemporary Canadian prison system into a historical context. This chapter examines the role of prison labour in the founding of the Canadian prison system, how prison … | Asaf Rashid; Jordan House | 23 | 2022 | $2.30 Add |
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From ![]() Sweet!How Fair Trade Powers the Sugar Revolution From: The Fair Trade Handbook |
This chapter explores fair trade in the sugar industry; how sugar farmers are often deprived of market access; and how a Paraguayan co-operative is positively disrupting the status quo. | Martin Van den Borre | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() Sweetheart HeroinesFrom: Immodest and Sensational |
1940-1955. Examines the effect of the war on women’s sports and how the immidiate post-war period was characterized by a remarkable emphasis on beauty, grace, femininity and, for some … | M. Ann Hall | 10 | 2008 | $1.00 Add |
![]() SweetheartsThe Builders, the Mob and the Men |
Toronto was Boomtown in the 1960s. The city was growing quickly, gobbling up farmland for suburbs, pushing through expressways, knocking down neighbourhoods to make way for high-rise apartments. … | 272 | View | ||
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From ![]() NEW! “Swept Away through Injustice” |
Chapter 1 introduces the premise of the book, which is to reexamine the idea of progress that we tie to the evolution of industrial agriculture over the last 200 years. Examination of this period … | Jim Handy | 8 | 2022 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Swimming Upstream |
This chapter discusses the benefits of personal change, how personal decisions can have ripple effects on other people, and how activists need to meet people where they are in order to influence … | Sami Grover | 16 | 2021 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() Swinging for the FencesFrom: BlackBerry Town |
Howitt touches on the Unviersity of Waterloo and how it has developed into one of the most respected technology and business schools in Canada, in large part thanks to BlackBerry’s … | Chuck Howitt | 17 | 2019 | $1.70 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Swinish MultitudesFrom: Being and Swine |
In this chapter, philosopher Fahim Amir provides a brief overview of the history of pigs in agriculture in Europe. The chapter also includes a discussion of the ways in which pigs have acted as a … | Corvin Russell; Fahim Amir; Geoffrey C. Howes | 29 | 2020 | $2.90 Add |
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From ![]() Sycophants, Citizens and the Majesty of Nature: Some Thoughts on the History of Australian Civic Debate |
Throughout the last 150 years of at times active, at times utterly uninspired civic debate, Australia has produced its fair share of sycophants determined to possess the baubles of Empire. … | David Headon | 12 | 2004 | $1.20 Add |



















